| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION screened copy were much better and advertisers liked the way their products were pictured So there seemed to beplus to go with each minus in the offset argument Utah was certainly not out of step Nationally the number of offset newspapers jumped from 200 as the 1950s passed by to more than500 in 1965 and over000 before the decade of the 1970s Still there continued to exist the school of thought exemplified by Norm Fuellenbach then publisher of the Richfield Reaper one of Utahoutstanding weeklies In 1962 he bought from Alex Dunn the Goss Cox-O-Type letterpress being replaced by the Goss Suburban offset at the Tooele Transcript Bulletin The Reaper was one of many hold-outs which defied offset conversion for several years The switch to offset was preceded bydecade of new ideas injected into newspaper production Some aimed to make it faster some sought to reduce costs some were designed to breathe new appearance into rather stodgy-looking pages Most newspapers shrugged off those developments because they could see no way to adapt them into their operations They did though applaud two new methods of making halftones FairchildScanagraver was first followed withinshort time by the competing Photo Lathe built by Graphic Electronics of Illinois The Fairchild machine reproduced on plastic the Photo Lathe on lightweight metal Both were less expensive than zinc engravings and speeded up the process since they were located right in the production plant Few smaller papers had experienced the luxury of in-house engraving although larger ones had long since had that capability with zinc etchings The reaction of Jean Debouzek whose engraving plant was then one of Salt Lake Cityleaders bringsreminiscent laugh to Rosellen Staats then Rosellen Vogeltanz She operated the Murray EagleScanagraver as an adjunct to her office manager duties and Debouzek periodically called there in pursuit of business The Scanagraver exhausted its fumes withpipe that went through the outside wall she recalls 230 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
